Last year, having completed my collection of eastern European egg cartons my better half suggested that I find a more “Sensible” hobby. I ask you!! Anyway, to keep her happy I took up photographing things that people stick or stencil onto lampposts, bins, postboxes, walls or whatever. Now I know you might find this hard to believe, but she is still not impressed.
Women are a complete mystery no doubt about it.

I’ve been posting photographs now for over a year on Politicalworld.org forum. It has been suggested to me that the PW blog deserves its fair share of lamppost items, so there will be a “best of” series of posts here for readers to catch up with, or remember, the best of Irish political stickers, starting from spring 2013.

Anyway, if you see something interesting, funny or artistic on a lamppost where you are, post it hereand share it with the world. Of course posting something does not mean you agree with it, so don’t be afraid to post far right sh*t. Forewarned is forearmed.
Stuff from anywhere in the world welcome, maybe with a translation if necessary.

I suggest not posting the all to frequent appeals for information about missing people. There is a missing persons thread and including them here among with some frivolous stuff may cause offence.

SOOOOOOO HERE IT IS! In Dublin, Spring 2013 these were the…….

Things people stick on lampposts.

Never Forget:
We have lots of Irish lampposts in Dublin
And we have the occasional foreign lamppost:
Éire Bocht= poor Ireland. But what has yer wan got to do with the price of chips?
Like wtf?

Now all this only helped the already name sake elections in India. If you live in India, you’d be normalized to the distribution of money, alcohol, sarees etc., in exchange for votes ( https://in.news.yahoo.com/is-andhra-…065759764.html, http://www.tehelka.com/the-dirty-und…election-2014/, http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-0…of-widows.html ). It is so normal that you would feel it unusual if elections were to be fought honestly. My own small town with a population of 40,000 saw distribution of around 15 million rupees (around 200k euro) cash by a single candidate alone. There were four other candidates – alcohol and other goodies were extras. This was only for council elections. I can’t imagine the amount spent across India in all the small towns and villages. Due to the normalization of this money for votes, people take money from all parties and still vote for whoever they want to. So due to the self destruction of UPA and large amounts of money and publicity by BJP, they were favs to win but nobody predicted that they would get a total majority. The reasons for them achieving such high seats are their intimidation tactics ( http://kafila.org/2014/04/16/democra…ma/#mor22204,http://kafila.org/2014/05/09/bjps-ca…onobina-gupta/,http://kafila.org/2014/04/29/modi-th…ere-is-the-ec/) in their strongholds and the old RSS trick of communal polarization between majority Hindu population and the minorities by instigation of riots, in regions where they lack support. In Uttar Pradesh, the Indian state with the highest number of MP seats BJP won 71 out of 80, and this was a major reason for them getting a simple majority.

That’s why all the organizations under RSS are known as the Sangh parivar ( Organizational family). They used the same trick to murder Gandhi (He was no saint, but murder is unacceptable: http://genderbytes.wordpress.com/201…imes-of-gurus/). Their recruitment has been steadily decreasing but Modi proved to be a godsend for them. Here is a profile of how Modi was made in RSS: http://caravanmagazine.in/reportage/emperor-uncrowned. So there, the usual mix of nationalism, fundamentalism, media propaganda, corporate sponsorship, a population normalized to corruption, deadly riots to polarize the usually peaceful regions and a self-proclaimed saviour/tough-administrator to rescue the masses from scam-ridden capitalism, with more capitalism with a hindu-fascist face.

dharma 23rd May 2014 (Part II to follow tomorrow)

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